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It was Mr. Crichton who introduced me (and many others) to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect...a strain of which is described perfectly in the modern context here: I was quite literally radicalized by 60 Minutes. I used to be like so many Americans, watching it religiously and trusting it. But then as a young man I …
Continue reading Michael Crichton Smiles…and I Remember 60 Minutes on MTBE
It seems it was a bit over a year ago when we were assured by the FBI that the FBI only had something like six operatives on the ground at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 (or was it one active operative and a handful of agents?)...and now it turns out there were really more …
Some might find it interesting that I came across this little tale from American history while reading just before sunrise today: In early September 1861, Kentucky still hung on to its neutrality . ... On the morning of September 5, Grant received a spy [...who...] informed him that Confederate general Gideon Pillow had broken Kentucky's …
Continue reading ‘I come to respect the rights of all loyal citizens’
I tend to hold a grudge. Proper maintenance of this personality trait leads me to watch The Big Short about once a year to refresh memories and refocus angers of that time when my 401K dropped by about 38% because of such foolishness. (Around the same time each year I also tend to pull out …
Based on my more focused observations since the mid-1980s, I tend to place the beginning of the Intellectually Un-Serious Era in America to shortly after Bill Clinton announced his run for the Presidency in late 1991. Somewhere around then is when the corporate media gave up all journalistic objectivity and went all-in for one political …
Continue reading Progressive Pols and their Monster – The Assassination Jubilation Edition (UPDATED)
Just so it doesn't go un-noted during the still snowballing rightful national outrage surrounding the political assassination of Charlie Kirk, I just want to put this question out there: What are the odds that the day after the assassination, after the better part of that prior day's news cycle was filled with growing volume and …
Continue reading Cynical Curiosity around Conveniently Distractive Hoaxes
These truly are interesting times. This week we witnessed one very public self-outing by a semi-major influencer / media-type as he admitted that he is, and has always been, an activist merely mimicking the mannerisms of an intellectual.1 (Maybe I do overstate the extent of the admission, but I thought it overly rude to presume …
I will start this post with the passage I used to conclude my last offering on the topic: Joe Biden never was man enough to rise to the office. Joe Biden never was man enough to fill the office. It is to the shame of all involved that a severely diminished version of the life-long …
Continue reading The History of a Prideless Executive Matures…and the Stench Continues to Grow
Of course, being elected on little more than undefined "Hope and Change" almost certainly meant there was always a good chance the resulting legacy would burn just as easy as the paper-thin resume of the administration's namesake. Any little spark along the way was bound to do the job. Alas, the flame thrower administered to …
I have written many times of the Un-Serious Era in America. In many ways, I presume we are well past peak un-seriousness but there will be those who cling to the blissful comfort found in that state of ignorance for quite some time. While it is little more than Exhibit 1,487,291 of the phenomenon, today's …
Continue reading Clinging Bitterly to their Long Nurtured Intellectual Un-Seriousness…
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